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INTEGRATING CORPUS-BASED TECHNOLOGIES INTO ESP INSTRUCTION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE
PhD student, Uzbekistan State World Languages University
Annotatsiya
English for Specific Purposes (ESP) instruction has traditionally prioritized technical vocabulary and grammatical accuracy, often leaving pragmatic competence - the ability to use language appropriately in professional and academic contexts underdeveloped. This article examines how corpus technologies, including concordancers, specialized corpora, and data-driven learning (DDL), can be integrated into ESP instruction to foster learners’ pragmatic awareness of speech acts, hedging, politeness, and discourse markers. Drawing on recent research, the article outlines a cyclical pedagogical framework moving learners from corpus exploration to contextualized production, presents a comparative table of corpus-based tools, and discusses pedagogical implications, challenges, and future research directions. The analysis suggests that, despite certain technical and representativeness limitations, corpus-based approaches offer ESP learners authentic, discipline-specific input that supports the noticing and internalization of pragmatic norms.
Kalit so'zlar: corpus linguistics, pragmatic competence, English for Specific Purposes (ESP), data-driven learning, concordancing, discourse markers, corpus-based instruction